Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pron] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Howe 's reputation as an animal painter was made when Sir John Sinclair of the Board of Agriculture commissioned him to draw details of various breeds of cattle , and he went on to paint hundreds more pictures , mostly of horses . |
| 2 | Only the waiter arriving with their main course stopped her telling Nathan Bryce exactly what she thought of him and his female acquaintances . |
| 3 | Tawny Owl helped us to make things from other countries , such as heart decorations , Mexican weaving and raffia mats . |
| 4 | His funeral took place during the First Test at Trent Bridge , with South Africa the tourists : play was halted as a tribute to the man whose valet helped him to contrive county cricket 's most amazing victory . |
| 5 | Mention of the Paints quality programme led me to ask Chris Hampson about the overall ICI approach to quality improvement . |
| 6 | She was just imagining Meredith dressed up as a sailor and herself with her arms round his neck , clinging to him as the wind tried to tear them apart , when a man with a tray hung from his neck asked her to buy bootlaces . |
| 7 | Sometimes he wondered why the superintendent asked him to research questions to which she already knew the answers . |
| 8 | The driver 's quick action helped him escape injury when Ian Hooker 's black Ford Escort car crashed into him in Marton Road , Middlesbrough . |
| 9 | Only as the car approached them did Ludens think he glimpsed a figure standing in the shade under a tree . |
| 10 | Our study allowed us to estimate dose equivalence from the dose response findings with salbutamol and salmeterol . |
| 11 | Like the less diplomatically suave authority , Theodore Haecker , whom Eliot was at times glad to call on , the author of Four Quartets and editor of The Criterion required us to take Virgil as , above all , the author of the Fourth Eclogue , the pagan poet who prophesied Christianity , whose vision of human history must accordingly be seen as completed and vindicated by The Divine Comedy . |
| 12 | When it rained , she thought nature was crying at her weakness , and when the midnight wind blew she thought nature was angry with her . |
| 13 | He told Theo that the act of drawing enabled him to see things differently . |
| 14 | Akram 's hour at the crease saw him punish Salisbury , take his side into the lead , survive at catch to Malcolm 's outstretched hand at deep mid-off , and finally go , bamboozled , when Salisbury put a googly , from wide of the crease , around the wicket , between the batsman 's legs and into the stumps : 263 for 7 . |
| 15 | The industry thought he needed redemption . |
| 16 | A dim light enabled him to find room seventeen . |
| 17 | In the last frenzied seconds as the boat tossed I thought Rachel held a pistol pointing at me , but then I saw it was only her glass . |
| 18 | But Jezrael walked unevenly yet unharmed , because the watchers in the jet and neon ghetto saw her dangling arm but they also saw her face and the ire in it was barely leashed . |
| 19 | English department did it last term . |
| 20 | Only on the final climb of Sally Gap did he clinch victory as his rival , Gary Baker , was struggling back from two punctures . |
| 21 | In contrast to these reductions in the rate of stroke , the effect on heart attacks was much less : only in the systolic hypertension in the elderly programme did it achieve significance . |
| 22 | Her lover said she needed time and space to rethink her parameters . |
| 23 | The record of the Alliance in power was one of pragmatism , perhaps not very different from that of labour had it retained control . |
| 24 | For the last twenty years of his life his bronchitis made him take holidays on the French Riviera ; Frith says of these later years that he ‘ fell back upon books and art , nature , love and poetry ’ . |
| 25 | Plato 's intimate association of time and the universe led him to regard time as being actually produced by the revolutions of the celestial sphere . |
| 26 | His keen instinct gave him a deep understanding of his environment and his innate intelligence led him to devise ways of altering it to his advantage . |
| 27 | The men behind the election campaign admitted they made mistakes . |
| 28 | A small number said that pressure of work made them take risks . |
| 29 | At the same time the specialist advised her to take walks in the fresh air and sunshine and also to stop using foundation on her days off work . |
| 30 | This is what I mean by protection — we did not run away from the terrible topic : the use of projection allowed us to face cancer . |